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Chapter Ten

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There’s a question I have asked several disciples when they first began to walk uprightly, as spiritual bipeds, before God. All of these disciples shared a common characteristic: they were concerned about health, diet, the purity of the food they ate and the air they breathed. And this is all good. However, the question asked is, What part of the blessing you say when giving thanks for the meal you are about to eat do you not believe?

When a disciple possesses the authority to forgive sins or to withhold forgiveness (see John 20:23), the disciple’s words have power. So when a disciple asks God to bless the food the disciple is about to eat in whatever words the disciple chooses to use, does the disciple really believe the words he or she speaks? If the disciple does truly believe, then God will bless the food, neutralize contaminates, prevent GMOs from causing internal organs to grow together, and God will supply all of the biological needs from the food eaten regardless of whether those nutrients are actually in the food consumed. For God to do this would be a reality of Elijah with the woman of Zarephath and her oil jug and flour jar not running dry during the drought in the days of King Ahab: to cleanse what is intended to be food—clean meats, roots, grains. and herbs—and to supply the nutrients the body needs from these foods would be analogous to making sure the widow’s jug and jar never were without enough to supply the needs for the day, and certainly a small piece of bread eaten daily wasn’t of itself supplying the bodily needs of Elijah, the widow woman, and her son.

But too often the spiritually immature disciple will believe God about big things like salvation, but will not believe that God will supply the biological needs of the flesh from the food the disciple has asked to be blessed. Therefore, this disciple’s unbelief prevents God from answering the prayer asked over the food to be eaten, and because the prayer isn’t answered but becomes vain repetition, the disciple becomes sick because of what either is in the food or isn’t in the food, thereby confirming in the disciple’s mind the need to only eat organic or to take natural dietary supplements. The disciple attempts to do for the flesh all the disciple can do; then the disciple blames industrial farming and the military-industrial complex for destroying the food supply of the world—in a manner similar to how Job blamed God for taking from him what God had given him when God had taken nothing from him other than an outer layer of protection from the Adversary.

I started raising poultry when in Oregon, before I went to Alaska, and the first turkey poults I brooded didn’t do well: they starved with full craws. And through interlibrary loan, I checked out standard veterinarian texts on diseases of poultry and on raising turkeys. I read the texts, and discovered that virtually every disease and malady that befell poultry stemmed from a nutritional deficiency. When the problem appeared, it might be that medical intervention beyond correcting dietary deficiencies was necessary, but the problem would return if the deficiencies weren’t addressed. And I realized that what happened within days with poultry also happened with people, with the problem taking perhaps years to show.

It was shortly after this that I was drafted into the Body of Christ. Whereas I hadn’t before been giving thanks for the food I ate, I began to do so. But giving thanks was uncomfortable, so I began to carefully think about my words, considering whether I really believed them before I said them, thus keeping my giving of thanks to a minimized prayer, a short sentence or two, the opposite of prayers of thanks taught to children, repeated from a memorized text that is really without meaning to the person saying the prayer.

When a prayer of thanks is said over a meal and when the person giving thanks or confirming the giving of thanks through saying, Amen [sobeit], actually believes that God will cause the food to be received, to be received for the good of the person, the person can eat without being overly concerned about whether the food comes from an organic source or is short on trace elements because of being commercially forced by excessive applications of N-P-K fertilizers.

This is not to say that if a person tempts God by eating what the person knows is not food, or knows is poisonous, that God will purge toxicity from what is eaten. This is, though, to say that by believing with the person’s life the words of the person when a prayer of thanks is made for food to be eaten, the food eaten will supply the biological nutrients the fleshly body needs, again, even if those nutrients aren’t present in the food eaten … what occurred outwardly in the days of the first Elijah will occur inwardly in the days of the last Elijah.

And so it is with all of biblical prophecy—

The problem endtime disciples face is in how to translate stories about what happened to the external world in which Israel is an outwardly circumcised nation to what will happen to the internal world of spirit and soul, a realm of intangibles that cannot be seen or measured with yardsticks or micrometers, a realm in which endtime Israel is a circumcised-of-heart nation and Babylon is the presently reigning kingdom of the Adversary, the spiritual king of Babylon, and the Body of Christ still lays dead, awaiting resurrection after the third day of the Genesis “P” creation account.

During the three days and three nights the earthly body of Christ Jesus lay dead in the Garden Tomb, according to Peter, Jesus having been made alive in the spirit (1 Pet 3:18) proclaimed to imprisoned spirits the things that are to be (vv. 19–20). What the living spirit of Jesus proclaimed to fallen angels before the earthly body of Jesus was resurrected and Jesus was accepted by the Father as the reality of the Wave Sheaf Offering serves as a type, a shadow of the spiritual Body of Christ being dead until resurrected to life after the third day. And in this shadow, while the spiritual Body is dead and buried, the glorified Christ, a life-giving spirit, proclaims to imprisoned humanity the things that are to be, with the juxtaposition of fallen angels and fallen humanity mimicking the juxtaposition of the Eight brought safety through water on the Ark and the Elect, also few in number, being safety brought from this present age to the age to come when the Son of Man reigns as King of kings and Lord of lords even though the Adversary as the true Antichrist, after having been cast into space-time, still lives.

As a Christian will utter a prayer before eating, the prayer too often being more of a formality than a sincere utterance, the Christian will believe that he or she is fully incorporated in the Body of Christ and is therefore the temple of God, this belief supported by Scripture, with Paul having written,

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. (Rom 12:1–2)

But does presenting a Christian’s body as a living sacrifice, not conformed to this world, permit the Christian to outwardly live as Gentiles? Or does presenting a Christian’s body as a living sacrifice mean that the Christian ceases doing those things that pertain specifically to conforming to the world such as eating pork and shellfish?

Would God honor the prayer of a Christian who deliberately eats meats that that—permissible to common humanity—are forbidden to those who would be holy as God is holy? Would not eating such meats negate voluntarily separation from this world, thus returning the Christian to the common pool of humanity? Would not taking the Christian Passover sacraments of blessed bread and drink on any night but the one on which Jesus was betrayed equate to the Christian making Cain’s sacrifice, the bread and wine being the fruit of the ground? Only on one night a year, year by year, does the blessed unleavened bread and the blessed cup represent the body and blood of the Lamb of God, and this night is the dark portion of the 14^th day of the first month, a month that will have begun with the first sighted new moon crescent following the spring equinox where the Christian dwells, with again the equator functioning for the high Sabbath as the International Dateline functions for the weekly Sabbath, with the International Dateline being an arbitrary line that doesn’t logically follow any line of longitude but wanders as if drunk between continents and territorial waters … in the Bering Sea, a vessel fishing blue king crab can travel north, passing from today into tomorrow then back into today without being stopped by the icepack.

In God honoring the prayer of the Christian who believes the words he or she utters when asking God to bless the food to be eaten, the reality of the widow of Zarephath’s flour jar and oil jug not running dry during the period when the prophet Elijah stayed with her comes to pass—and comes to pass daily without the miracle calling attention to itself. For the indwelling Christ Jesus is the reality foreshadowed by the prophet Elijah; the indwelling Christ is the Elijah to come, the Elijah about whom the prophet Malachi wrote,

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of [YHWH] comes. And He will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction. (Mal 4:5–6)

No human person can be the spiritual reality of the prophet Elijah although John the Baptist in preparing the way for the Lord anticipated in his person the coming of the last Elijah.

Therefore, the authority invested in the words of those disciples who have truly been born of God through receipt of a second breath of the life comes from the indwelling of Christ. It is Christ’s words that the person speaks, which is why the Christian truly born of spirit has the authority to forgive sins. And since it is Christ’s words that are prayed when this Christian asks God to bless the food the Christian is about to eat, everything invoked in Jesus physically feeding the five thousand and eating the four thousand is invoked in the blessing asked.

GMO corn and soybeans, rape seed and Palmer pigweed (coming from nature fighting back against Monsanto) should not be a Christian’s first choice when it comes to food grains, but if they are all that the Christian can afford or can obtain, then the prayer of the Christian in asking God to bless what will be eaten is more than adequate to neutralize the potential harm caused by the industrialization of agriculture. The Christian can eat without anxious thought if this Christian truly believes the words he or she prayed, words analogous to Jesus words:

Jesus then took the loaves, and when He had given thanks, He distributed them to those who were seated. So also the fish, as much as they wanted. And when they had eaten their fill, He told His disciples, "Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost." So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten. (John 6:11–13)

Note, although John records (in narrative) the words Jesus spoke to His disciples after all had eaten their fill, John doesn’t record the actual words Jesus spoke—to do so would cause those words to have been regarded as a magic spell, able to make a little into much. John only records, when He had given thanks. Nothing more need be said than, Thanks. The person about to eat doesn’t have to tell God that the fish might have mercury in its fat, or irradiated iodine in its flesh. The person giving thanks doesn’t have to ask God to supply the biological nutrients needed from the food. Why else would the person be eating other than to sustain the fleshly body; so the presumption that comes with giving God thanks is that biological needs will be satisfied …

The person might eat as a way of pleasuring the flesh: if this is why the person eats, the person has far greater problems than will be caused by excessive BGH [Bovine Growth Hormone] that breaks down into the same compound as does Human Growth Hormone, only with a longer lasting effect, thus causing the fleshly body and tumors in the body to grow. The person has greater problems than those caused by the ingestion of antibiotics used to fatten cattle and hasten the growth of poultry. And God, Father and Son, will have to address these greater problems, with illnesses and death used as the corrective to gluttony.

Again, in John’s Gospel,

On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you." When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you." And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, "Receive pneuma ’agion. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld." (John 20:19–23)

In His act of breathing on ten of His first disciples, the glorified Jesus directly transferred His breath [pneuma Christou] to His disciples, with this direct transfer causing the Ten to be born of spirit through the indwelling of Christ in the form of His breath, His spirit [again, pneuma Christou], in the spirit of the disciple [to pneuma tou mathetou]. And with this indwelling of Christ, the Ten would speak—because of the nature of utterance being modulated breath—the words Jesus spoke, His words being modulations of His breath, His spirit in the spirit of the disciple; of all ten disciples.

As I have previously written, with spiritual birth the disciple receives the indwelling mind of Christ, which will give to the disciple—with maturity—the wisdom needed to know when to forgive sins or to withhold forgiveness, this wisdom being the production of the spirit of Christ, and coming before the disciple knows to believe his or her prayer about blessing the food the disciple eats. Again, the disciple will believe God about big things such as forgiving sins before the disciple believes God about little things like blessing Great Lakes fish that have enough mercury stored in their fat they’re only supposed to be eaten once a week, or eating turnips grown in irritated soil, the only soil available in northeastern Japan.

Again, it is easy to believe God about big things, salvation, forgiveness of sin, but it is difficult to trust God when it comes to little things like healing the fleshly body, or trusting God to neutralize the negative effects of industrialized agricultural—and this ought not be … perhaps what is seen in Christians professing belief that God has saved them isn’t real trust of God, but a false escape from the finality of death; for if the Christian really believed God about salvation, the Christian would also believe God about providing the Christian’s physical needs day by day. Or is this too much to expect from spiritual infants?

Matthew’s Jesus, in answering His disciples’ question of when there would not be one stone of the temple left on another, said,

From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near. So also, when you see all these things, you know that He is near, at the very gates. Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left. Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left. Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. (Matt 24:32–44 emphasis added)

If Jesus had spoke of the day and hour when the end of the age would come, His words would not pass away: the end of the age would come when He said. And in actuality He did say when the time of the end would begin: For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark … Noah entered the Ark on the 10^th day of the second month of his six hundredth year, with this 10^th day of the second month later becoming the day when the Passover lamb for the second Passover would be selected and penned.

Until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man—seven days passed between when Noah entered the Ark and the flood came and swept away all who continued to eat and drink, marry and give in marriage … the world was unaware of what was about to befall it until disaster struck suddenly.

Today, does the world choose to keep the Sabbath, the seventh day of a seven day weekly cycle going back to Moses and the giving of manna in the second month on or about the 16^th–17^th day? The world pretty much adopted the seven day weekly cycle, a cycle that matches the biorhythms of human persons—a ten day cycle does not—but the world has, for the most part, chosen to rest on the day after the Sabbath, not on the Sabbath, the busiest shopping day of the week.

It would seem that today’s world is as unaware of the signs of the times as were Noah’s neighbors—

There will be another Passover liberation of Israel, a Second Passover liberation on the second Passover, with Jesus being careful about when His earthly ministry began and about when it would end. A certain day to date alignment had to occur on a seven day weekly cycle … between the 1^st and 3^rd Centuries CE, the Hebrew seven day week replaced the eight-day Roman nundinal cycle with its flexible market day that by inclusive counting made for a ninth day. But unlike the Hebrews who denoted the day of the week by the day’s relationship to the Sabbath (e.g., one day after the Sabbath, two days after, three day after, three days before, two days before, one day before) the Roman Empire adopted planetary names for the days of the week, with the order of days being Sun, Moon, Ares, Hermes, Zeus, Aphrodite, Cronos, named according to Hellenistic astrology for the celestial bodies that presided over the first daylight hour of each day.

The Greek god Zeus equates to the Nordic god Thor; so Zeus’ day became Thor’s day, Thursday. And the day to date alignment of the Passover in the year Jesus was crucified [31 CE] had the 15^th day of the 1^stmonth occurring on Thursday, Zeus’ day, from which the Sacred Names Heresy (usually unknowingly) gets its misinformation that the name “Jesus” is a variant form of “Zeus” when in Greek, <Ίησου> [genitive case from Acts 4:10] doesn’t read or appear like <Διός>, the form of Ζεός [masculine, singular, nominative case] seen in the 10^th line of Book 1 of the Odyssey, and the form employed to link Ζεός to heaven.

Of course, in Old Latin, the linguistic icon used for god is deiuos, which became Deus, and in Spanish Dios, a letter for letter translation of the Greek Διός, each the linguistic icon representing <El> in Hebrew, not <Elohim>, the plural of <Eloah> which is God [El] plus His breath [ah], the /ah/radical representing aspiration or breath. So if the Sacred Names Heresy were honest in its errant teachings, the name for the Most High God would be a form of Zeus, not the name Jesus.

Thus, the day to date hard link that is/was for Jesus as Ninwe was for Jonah will have the day of Zeus [ήμέρα του Διου] being the 15^th day of the month of the Passover, the great Sabbath of the Sabbath (English for the Greek identifying phrase used in John 19:31 for the first High Day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread) … Jesus would be dead and buried in the Garden Tomb at the beginning of the day of Zeus, when His living spirit would go to imprisoned spirits and preach to them in Tartaroo, which in Greek mythology was the deepest abyss in Hades. He would be God to these imprisoned spirits for the day [period] when He preached to them; He would be to these imprisoned spirits as Zeus was to the pantheon, with these imprisoned spirits represented in this world by fallen humanity. Thus, God, Father and Son, anticipated when Jesus would be crucified before the Logos entered His creation as His unique Son, with this anticipation functioning for fallen humanity in a manner analogous to how Ninwe being the house of fish [nuna] as well as the house of Nin Ur, father of Ishtar [nina], functioned for ancient Assyrians. And as at the preaching of Jonah Nineveh repented, at the preaching of the three angels what remains of un-condemned fallen humanity [the third part, from Zech 13:9] will repent, will rebel against the Antichrist, and will—by enduring to the end without taking upon themselves the tattoo of the cross, the mark of the beast, chi xi stigma—be saved in the harvest of firstfruits. This third part has nothing more to do than “endure” without being able to buy or sell [conduct transactions] until the end of the age, the Second Advent.

In a long and convoluted sentence, the endtime Christian needs to understand that the juxtaposition between Jonah being swallowed by a great fish, a whale, and expelled from the whale before going to Nineveh, the great City of Nin Ur the sun god of war, to preach repentance to 120,000 souls that did not know left hands from right, hence defiling themselves by worshiping the creation rather than the Creator as in a manner typified by wiping themselves after a bowel movement with the same hand with which they ate, a forbidden practice even today within Arabia and the reason underlying why the left hands of thieves are chopped off (the punished thief is from henceforth a defiled person, and not a person with whom an undefiled Muslim would shake hands), is analogous to the juxtaposition between Christ Jesus being crucified on the Preparation Day, the first Unleavened, for the great Sabbath of the Sabbath that “happened” to fall on the Greek day of Zeus, and the days of Noah that reveal when Christ Jesus will come as the Messiah, with the Second Passover liberation of Israel, the Body of the Lamb of God, to begin a hard countdown to the Second Advent, with the Body of the Passover Lamb of God to be selected and penned on the 10^th day of the second month as the Head of this Passover Lamb was selected and penned on the 10^th day of the first month [that is the second month on rabbinical Judaism’s calculated calendar]. This latter juxtaposition will have the Second Passover liberation of Israel also occurring on the day of Zeus, Thursday, with the 16^th day of the second month occurring on Friday, the Islamic day of prayers when all firstborns of Islam will have to be buried to be in the grave within a day of being killed …

God knows and has known for a very long time that Christians within the greater Christian Church will rebel against Him on day 220 of the Affliction: this rebellion will be the great Apostasy (2 Thess 2:3) that causes greater Christendom, liberated from indwelling sin and death as Israel in Egypt was liberated physical slavery, to not enter into heaven as the men of Israel numbered in the census of the second year, except for Joshua and Caleb, did not enter into the Promised Land. And as the children of Israel, numbered in the census of Numbers chapter 26, replaced virtually man-for-man the men numbered in the census of the second year (Num chap 1), the third part of humanity—a large part Muslim—will replace virtually man-for-man Christians who have rebelled against God. However, these replacements will no longer be Muslims, or Buddhists, or Hindis, or atheists, but will be, though the working of the Lord, circumcised-of-heart Israelites.

The third part of humanity will repent at the preaching of the three angels, their preaching preceded by the ministry of the two witnesses and by the work of Philadelphia, but to transform the minds and hearts of this third part so that the preaching of the three angels will be received rather than rejected, a lot has to happen that as signs of the time cannot be read or interpreted by greater Christendom, with the hard link between the 15^th day of the Passover month necessarily occurring on Thursday, and the 16^th day—the day bread from heaven was promised—falling on Friday, Islam’s day of prayers, with the third day that Jesus was in the grave falling on the weekly Sabbath, the third day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the year of the Crucifixion, being a sign of the times, the sign of Jonah, the Jonah metaphor.

In the Afterward, I will chronologically lay out the imbedded timeline found in Daniel’s visions, and in John’s vision. For I want to quit this chapter early, without addressing issues raised that warrant another book length manuscript. This text is nearly long enough and will be with its Afterward.

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